Electronics, Music and Technology

As mentioned in a previous posting, for Christmas, I received an Assemble-it-yourself Digital Multimeter Kit. Awesome. So, for the last week or two I’ve been building it, section at a time, till tonight, where I found myself in need of doing a calming activity. What is more calming then sitting down and soldering for 2 hours, while listening to Paramore’s discography using my DIY FM Transmitter to broadcast to my DIY AM/FM Radio?

Anyway… This is what it looks like, finished:

Sorry about the Mr. Blurrycam shot. Darn flash. I’ll have a clearer shot after the break, along with more details on the functions.

There, a much better, focused, balance photo. As you will notice, the selector knobs gives me many options. Here are some of the features of the multimeter:

AC/DC Voltage Measurement

AC/DC Current Measurement (up to 20A!!!)

Continuity/diode tester (with buzzer, thank god…)

Ohmmeter

Capacitance-meter (okay, not the right name…)

NPN/PNP Transistor tester

Tons of features. The great thing about this multimeter is its performance is dependent to a certain degree on your soldering and assembly abilities. The assembly guide had tests at the end of the most sections, which I completed and passed each one (I lied, I didn’t complete the transistor testing and the capacitance measurement, as none of my other multimeters could measure these, and I didn’t have a transistor or capacitor lying around (within close proximity)). There is virtually no variance between this meter and my Mastercraft “control” meter.